Written Answers Tuesday 22 August 2006

Scottish Executive

Crime

Stewart Stevenson (Banff and Buchan) (SNP): To ask the Scottish Executive what the detection rate was in 2005-06 for (a) theft and handling of stolen goods, (b) fraud and forgery, (c) criminal damage, (d) violence against the person, (e) sexual offences, (f) robbery and (g) all violent crimes.

Cathy Jamieson: This information will not be available until the publication, on 5 September 2006, of Recorded Crime in Scotland, 2005-06 , a Scottish Executive National Statistics publication, which can be found at: http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2005/03/18798 .